Yoast SEO 3.0

Joost de Valk is the founder and CEO of Yoast. He's a WordPress / Web developer, SEO and an Open Source fanatic.

We’ve just released Yoast SEO 3.0. This release includes real time content analysis, the “upgrade” of our snippet preview to a snippet editor, an upgrade to how we handle categories and tags and an integration with Ryte. And that’s just the headline features.

Since the “creation” of Yoast SEO as a plugin, we’ve not done a release as big as this. It’s been quite a while in the making, my blog post about real time content analysis dates back from July. That’s because we had to rewrite a lot of the features of Yoast SEO in JavaScript. This makes it possible to run our analysis in your browser, instead of on the server, making it much much faster.

Real time content analysis

With Yoast SEO 3.0, our focus keyword capabilities and content analysis became real time. We also added, in Yoast SEO Premium, the option to have multiple focus keywords. This quick video is probably a better example of what I mean than what I can explain in words:

We think that’s nice! It’s so fast, sometimes you don’t even see it update.

Multiple Focus Keywords

With Yoast SEO Premium you can, as of this release, assign multiple focus keywords to a post (or page). This means that you’re going to be able to optimize a post for two completely different terms, or for two synonyms. We’ve got more functionality planned for upcoming release of Yoast SEO Premium around this.

We think multiple focus keywords and our real time content analysis are cool, we hope you do too. If this makes you want to upgrade to Yoast SEO Premium, you’re in luck: this post marks the beginning of a sale up until the end of the year in which Yoast SEO Premium will only cost $69 per year for support, updates & upgrades!

Snippet preview becomes snippet editor

Our snippet preview was the first ever to be built-in to a WordPress plugin or theme. Now, this much copied feature is moving into a next step: a snippet editor. As you can see in the interface above, you can edit the snippet straight where you see it, making the interface much smoother and easier to work with.

This feature replaces the fields for title and meta description. You can now also edit the post slug straight from this interface. Did you notice in the video that we’ve changed the UI for our meta box too?

Ryte integration

We’ve long been wanting to work with our friends at Ryte, they run one of the finest SEO tools in the business and have a free account that many of our users could benefit from. In collaboration with them we’ve built a service integration that checks, on a weekly basis, whether your site can still be indexed by search engines. If, for some reason, your site suddenly changes in such a way that it’s no longer indexable by search engines, we’ll notify you, both on your dashboard and in an email.

This is just our first bit of work with our friends from Ryte and we hope to be able to deliver more cool features together in the future.

Categories and tags become first-class citizens

We’ve always told you to optimize your category and tag pages, but we weren’t really good at helping you do it. Now, we’ve brought the entire Yoast metabox, including the snippet editor and the content analysis, to the category edit page:

In addition, your category / tag description field no longer is a plain text field but now immediately gets a full rich text editing environment so you can way more easily make those descriptions attractive.

There are more features, but I’ll stop here. We’d love to hear what you think in the comments!

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341 Responses to Yoast SEO 3.0

Ludwig Sörmlind • 3 years ago

Thank you and the team for all the hard work you put into this!

Initially I had some problem when editing the titles and the meta descriptions. The content in these boxes just flippad back to what it previously contained when editing old content. A simple browser cache clear fixed this. Just in case I cleared the Cloudflare cache too.

Bao Nguyen • 3 years ago

I have used one page to make homepage but are still notice red lights yoast seo : The focus keyword does not appear in the URL for this page. If you decide to rename the URL be sure to check the old URL 301 redirects to the new one!

Marie • 3 years ago

Sorry really sad you have changed how the SEO plugin works to write in the title etc. This plugin was simple for clients to use and now there are so many glitches when trying to click the title and type in it and its not obvious on where to type ( i have a lot of older clients non computer wise people! ) that it is such a shame, bring back the boxes please as this is just terrible.

David Harris • 3 years ago

The images in the media library used to have a meta description field as well as a description field. We were using the description field for internal seraches as there are over 1500 images and the meta description field got passed onto the attachment page, which now takes the description since this update. The images in the attachment pages now have the description not the meta description, which is just a bunch of keywords. We either need to retrieve the old meta description field or edit 1500 images! Help!

Fredrik Frodell • 3 years ago

Hi!
The Media Library in WordPress breaks the images we try to upload. Could this has to do with the Yoast SEO upgrade? If so, can I purchase a pro-licence from you guys and have it fixed? Would love to!
Best regards
Fredrik

jozef • 3 years ago

Hi, I have been using your SEO tool for couple years now, but since I upgraded today to the newest version, every-time I go back to any previous post to edit something my mac freezes and for example a simple task like adding a new word to a post takes up to a minute!!! There is a bug guys in this new version. I have never had any issues like this before so I hope you look after these new one ASAP :) Thanks.

Tony • 3 years ago

Your new Snippet Editor sucks in every possible way. I had to fine tune my meta description in a text editor before copying in. Plus, nobody needs real-time status updates – hitting “save draft” worked just fine. Be like Apple and focus on adding features, not like MS and give us nonsense overhauls. Please revert to the previous snippet editor model.

Wayne • 3 years ago

Hi there,

I am sure it has been covered in one of the many posts above – i just couldn’t find it. The new release is “hanging my system” terribly. I turned the plugin off and system is fine, once back on the editor works at a “snail-pace”.

Any updates herein?

Regards

project • 3 years ago

I really enjoyed the update. specially real-time analysis is great, you no longer need to update the page and see the results
tnaks

Prachi Tyagi • 3 years ago

Hi Joost,

I have the Yoast 3.0.4 version. Even after plugging the focus keyword, there is no SEO status (just a grey button) – it appears as if I haven’t added a keyword but thats untrue. Any help?
Thank you :)

Katrina • 3 years ago

I HATE this release. I’ve spent hours looking for the General tab and meta description. Now I’m getting SEO errors for no sub-headings. I have three. I’ve relogged out of my web site and back in countless times. I’ve purchased the Premium looking for the General Tab. I’ve cleared my cache. I have spent hours on what should be so simple. Even if I add additional key words, I get errors only on what the first one is, even if I add additional correct ones. Your training video offers no help or comparison to the former version. Have I said enough? Again, I say hours wasted.

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Joost de Valk • 3 years ago

Sorry to hear that Katrina, looking at the release video might have helped, but that might also not have made it 100% clear yet. It’s actually fairly simple once you know it: click the title or description in the snippet preview (now: snippet editor).

B.P. • 3 years ago

Clicking the snippet editor does not work to edit the title. Clicking on the title, the title disappears and the address url (slug) appears. I’m using the latest version. What gives?

GoToGuy • 3 years ago

Having the same problem listed a few times below for which a response has not yet been offered from Yoast.

Home page URL in snippet editor is adding example-post/ to my URL.When I click to edit, it disappears but as soon as I click out of the edit, it appears back! This is not occurring on any other page where the correct page extension is appearing. So why is it adding it to my home page, and how can I stop this happening?

JAM • 3 years ago

Hi Yoast — With the new release, the Publish button no longer shows up on Posts or Events. The button itself is missing, so we are unable to publish. If I disable Yoast, the button reappears.

This was never a problem before. It’s YOUR responsibility to track down plugin conflicts on your new releases, not ours. We have many plugins active and do not have a mirror system where we can test.

If you want, I can send you a list of our installed plugins.

Thank you.

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Joost de Valk • 3 years ago

Hi Jam,

it’s our responsibility? Pardon me? We have 4.5 million websites using our plugin, in approximately 4 million different configs. It simply doesn’t work like that. Also, even if you were a paying customer, we wouldn’t do that because there are many, many more things than just the list of plugins that can cause incompatibilities. This, unfortunately, is the reality of the WordPress ecosystem.

We’re happy to help track down the issue if you open an issue on GitHub and tell us the specific JavaScript error you’re getting. We’ll expect you to be nice and courteous though, and not to point us at what you think our responsibilities are. This is a product that, as far as I can tell from our customer database and your email address, you’re getting for free, and that entitles you to absolutely nothing.

Now let me honest: if you were a paying customer one of my support team might dive into your site and give it a look, but even then we can’t promise quick fixes as sometimes there are none.

Suresh • 3 years ago

hi i am getting this error -“No meta description has been specified, search engines will display copy from the page instead” at posts editor whats this can you help to get green success signal for it…
thanks in advance

Livingstone Were • 3 years ago

Home page editor url can’t be edited any more. This is the results
mysite.com/example-post

Whats the way out?

GoToGuy • 3 years ago

Hi guys,

This issue has been raised by many on this article now. Most of the comments, you’re very fast to reply on but this ‘/example-post’ isn’t getting a response from you. Could you comment please?

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Joost de Valk • 3 years ago

We’re still having trouble replicating it in the current version. Could you make sure you’re on 3.0.6?

Livingstone Were • 3 years ago

Hope page editor url can’t be edited any more. This is the results
mysite.com/example-post

Whats the way out?

Mike Mahaffey • 3 years ago

I love your plugin…….BUT it sucks not having the meta description box! How in the world would I know where Google is going to pull the description from???

Cyril Darmouni • 3 years ago

+1 old seo back stop the mess

Raymond • 3 years ago

automatic update doesn’t work Yoast SEO Premium Version 2.3.5 and Google Analytics by Yoast Premium Version 5.4.6 to the latest available version! Any Idee?

t • 3 years ago

omgosh, i feel bad for all the hatemail you are receiving. THIS is meant as a constructive note on latest 3.0.4.

SO!
— categories are fixed.
— On-page errors while using visual editor now only happen ****after the focus keyword has been set****
— But once the error cycle starts, it is like 5 minutes of not responding browser. clicking “stop script” and checking “do not show this message again” does NOT fix the error. it keeps coming up constantly.

anyway, glad for some progress. but you guys really fucked up and NEED to allow people to disable all the on-page javascript BS. it serves no value. waiting 25 minutes to publish a FINISHED post just to get a red/green/yellow traffic light ? ?????

what a mistake.

Derek • 3 years ago

Ever since I updated my premium version to the lastest version I’m unable to see my meta settings and the yoast seo settings page the dashboard is out of alighment.. I’m using IE11 and even tried chrome but it seems there is a coding error somewhere. I’m waiting on an email from support since I get it as a premium SEO client.

First time in years I’ve had an issue with a Yoast plugin. Never thought this day would happen. I just wrote a new blog post and can not edit the SEO settings of the post so I wont publish anything. Seems pushing updates to fast made something else not work.

LoNi • 3 years ago

+1 -> I want the old yoast seo back
This new version is very disappointing and unstable. However, it is also full of great ideas (onpage.org integration for example). But there are too many issues to release it now to the world! The current version should be only proposed to testers (I think).
Anyway, thanks for your effort in making your product better. Just focus a bit more on the fact that robustness is better than more functionalities for the average user.

Leonie • 3 years ago

Hi,

I’ve update the plugin to 3.0.4, emtyd my cache, but I still have a problem with the content analyse. I keep seeing the blue loading bar instead of the analyse. How can I resolve this?

arthur • 3 years ago

please +1 this comment and vote if you want the old yoast seo back

Shawon Sarker • 3 years ago

+1 >> I want the old yoast seo back

Antoinette de Fouw • 3 years ago

One of the plugins that clash with Yoast SEO 3.0 is Page Builder Plugin – SiteOrigin

http://imgur.com/Eg7rgky
this img shows second error
– this error stops loading of Content analysis
– because I do not have unminified version of yoast-seo-302.min.js I am not able to debug it
– problem is in “status” property
– so I only delete “.status” from minified version of file

http://imgur.com/UOZFfRu
this img shows situation after erorrs repairing
– meta description is OK
– SEO title is still missing (there is only %%title%% %%page%%…and so on)
– main keyword (Hlavne klucove slovo) is still missing
– Content analysis is successfully loaded

So, question is, why is SEO title and Main keyword missing ?

Grayhambo • 3 years ago

Auto updated to Version 3.0.4 for WordPress. All I now have is snippet and keyword, Below that it is just a blue and white loading bar. All of my focus keywords have disappeared! I’ve tried several suggestions in the posts above – but still not working. Is there a fix yet?

Jacco • 3 years ago

Hi Joost,

it would be nice it you could make the traffic light clickable. Especially with long pages this saves a lot of scrolling.

Thanks!

Paul Burton • 3 years ago

I can confirm that a Wordfence setting is cause the ‘not indexed’ error message. If I check “Immediately block fake Google crawlers” I see the error message and if I uncheck it and allow fake Google crawlers the error message disappears.

So how do I overcome this? And how can I edit titles?

Paul Burton • 3 years ago

Tearing my hair out and kind of fed up with complaints from clients now.

TWO issues:-
1. Your homepage cannot be indexed by search engines.
Despite clicking Fetch the current status and a hard refresh there is not one website I am responsible for that shows the home page is indexable – which is absolute nonsense. As a result I am inundated with concerned client emails and it’s not doing much for my reputation!

NOTE: If I deactivate Wordfence – the sites all become indexable according to Yoast?????

2. I have yet to find a site that allows me to edit the page title as you show in dashboard video. I can edit the URL and Meta Descriptions but any attempt to edit the page title simply makes the page title disappear.

PS. I post here as I am getting zero response from the WordPress support page for the plugin. I guess you guys are busy huh?

Joe • 3 years ago

Not having any of the major problems as listed above. Using 3.03 and cleared all cache after install and transition appears to be smooth and working as advertised except!. In the Tools Menu admin panel, when I click on tab, appears to be extra long time to reach page and when in finally does, all I get is Heading for the page Tools – Yoast SEO and nothing else on the page. This is where I would originally get to the File Editor. Has it been moved?, Or is it a bug? I can edit the two files listed there directly (htaccess and robots), but it was very convenient to do it through Yoast Admin.

Jean-Luc • 3 years ago

Hi there
Great update! But you see, it is not at all obvious that the snippet editor is present! I only found it by chance just now, after spending the whole of last night looking for an alternative plugin that could let me amend the meta description. Maybe having a colour tool tip telling you that when you hover the mouse on top of the snippet could help the UX. Or a greyed out text at the top of the window… Just my 2p.

Mattia • 3 years ago

Hi! I’ve set a page as “noindex” and now I want switch it as “index” but I can’t with this new version.

Please, help me! :(

Mark • 3 years ago

Slows down the post editor. Every time I type there is a lag for the characters to show up on screen. Very annoying. This happens when a focus keyword is specified only.

Carlyn Bullock • 3 years ago

I’m in tears. Everything changed since my last post, I don’t have time to learn all this new stuff. I just wrote a new post and can not find the freaking Meta description box anywhere!!!!!! Where is it??? I’ve clicked on everything I can click on and am not seeing it anywhere but I sure as heck have a red light because it’s empty. Please help. I wanted to post tonight :-(

Dana Gibson • 3 years ago

The 3.0.3 version is doing some strange stuff to the WooCommerce Product Category admin page. When I go to edit a WooCommerce Category I see the expanded Yoast SEO stuff (nice!) but there is now a HUGE page content area (like for the content of a post with the WYSIWYG) up top. The main navigation for WordPress is all messed up. I can’t use this huge content area and it breaks the WP admin Navigation so I can’t see anything below Product, no Appearance, Plugins, Users, etc.

Also, the SEO tab for images is totally missing. I’ve looked in “Screen Options” and SEO or Yoast is not even an option. I can’t edit the metadata of images anymore.

I’ve cleared the cache, tried 3 different browsers. Every plugin is up to date including WooCommerce. WordPress is up to date.

I’ve tried turning it off and on again.

Still no SEO for images and messed up WooCommerce Product Category admin area.

Dana Gibson • 3 years ago

Oh, yeah the Categories for the regular WP Posts are all messed up as well. For me its all in the admin area, the front end is fine.

Dana Gibson • 3 years ago

If anyone is following along here, the 3.0.4 did NOT fix the problems with the Categories!

t • 3 years ago

AHHHH!!!!! #Yoast 3.03 fucks up ALL category pages. they either:
— link to nothing (page not found)
— link to some random article
— load a PAGE that is unformatted and NOT your normal category page.

CHECK YOUR CATEGORIES!!!!! i had to uninstall this POS.

Marion • 3 years ago

I would hope that the content analysis is like before actually me completely displayed in German and not as now 3 points in German and all the rest in English.

Or is there a way to change this yourself?

Arian • 3 years ago

Hi,

While I think (or expect) the new plugin got lots of cool stuff under the hood I really don’t like the new snippet editor.
It feels “slower” or “harder to handle” than the old one.
I think it’s caused by the pointer cursor. May switch it to text on hover?

Also what was wrong with the single green/yellow/orange/red light?

I have to admit I’m not a fan of this update and looked for a fallback UI option in the menu :D

arthur • 3 years ago

Hi many many many people are not appreciating this new update. If you were going to alter the plugin so drastically, couldn’t you have left the existing plugin as-is and started a new project? Thus not forcing people to drastically change everything?

Please listen to what your users are saying and change this back to the old version. Then, if you want to release the new version, do so under a different name where we will not be forced to upgrade to something we don’t want.

I hate to say this, but with capitalism, if you mess up your core product you may find that you are leaving a lot of disgruntled people out there who will switch to a new provider if that provider is giving them what they want.

I know it is frustrating that you put a lot of work into this new version, but from the comments it sounds like the people, the users, your audience is not interested in these changes and not interested in the upgrade.

Food for thought – do whatever you want. I suspect for myself I will be looking around at new potential SEO plugins….

Jon • 3 years ago

The new version is not working on any of my sites. When I enter a new title and meta, they don’t stick…. that is, when I ‘save draft’ they revert to the example copy. Please help. I tried to refresh my browser cache… no love!

Els Mahieu • 3 years ago

I have version 3.0.3 and nothing happens with the content analysis, still getting a “white and blue loading bar”, cleared cache several times. Any idea or help would be highly appreciated, thanks!

Kate • 3 years ago

I upgraded to 3.0.3. tonight and I am beyond frustrated. With the older version I was running, your plugin was able to get the information it needed from the Advanced Custom Fields on all posts and pages, and now, even with the filter in place it is no longer working. Also, (and much worse) NONE of my custom post types have editable snippets, or titles, or content analysis, just keywords. Considering that over 3/4 of the site are custom post type posts this is not a good thing. I’ve double checked, they are all marked ‘public’ => true.
And I’ve cleared the cache. Repeatedly. (First thing I did)
I even tried sending an email but was told that unless I upgraded to the premium version they couldn’t answer my question… but if this is happening for the free version what good would upgrading do other than paying for something that is no longer working for my site?
I am really glad that I had the site backed up though, I’ve downgraded back to the version I was running before and I think I’ll keep it there until the Custom Post types and Custom Fields issue has been addressed because at least this way I can functionally work on the SEO… I’m not sure if this is a bug or if anyone else has had similar issues…
Now I have to update all of my posts…individually…so reset the SEO…

Taco Verdonschot • 3 years ago

A patch was created that should fix this issue. It’s been tested and will be included in the next release.

If you have a testing environment, please feel free to install this version to check that it solves the issue you ran into.

We’ve looking forward to your feedback.

Jodi Shaw • 3 years ago

Clearing the cache does not fix errors. Post back end, images, preview and other multiple features are not working since the upgrade. It also says my site is not indexed which it clearly is, I’ve done everything to fix it. I uninstalled it and will forget the hassles. There are too many bugs and you just keep saying clear the browser, wow great advice!

Mike • 3 years ago

Hi, I really like that now you can use more than 1 keyword with this plugin.

I am having a major issue though and I can’t find anyone else with the issue.

I updated my meta description in the new yoast plugin but when I search my site on google, the meta description that I entered doesn’t show up. The only thing that shows up is the first couple of sentences of that post. So I checked another site of mine which I use the same theme but haven’t yet updated Yoast SEO, and that one works fine.

Is anyone else having this issue??

Please help :)

Craig Backus • 3 years ago

The latest update is working pretty well for me. I love the dynamic nature of it, the fact that the problems show fixed as soon as you tab to the next field. The one area I wondered about was the title and the 70 character limit? The snippet field is automatically putting in an ellipsis, and not allowing me to see past it. It does actually save the characters, but doesn’t allow you to see it. Does Google really frown on it being more than 70? I’ve heard from a number of sources that going up to 80 or 85 doesn’t seem to have a detrimental effect. I would really like to be able to see this rather than forcing the ellipsis.

Taco Verdonschot • 3 years ago

We did our best to match Google’s actual behavior as best as possible, and we’ll further improve it in the future.

Joe • 3 years ago

Joost,

I’m hoping you can help. I updated to the new Yoast 3.0.3 and when I put in my target keywords, my content analysis bar does nothing by animate from a blue to white gradient. Like it’s thinking, but not a whole lot being done (and by that I mean nothing).

How good your plugin optimized for russian language? Because I have problem with Content Analysis in all ma pages. For example I have keyword in H2, in the first paragraph, and alt in images. But Content Analysis say that I am not. Why Content Analysis not working for my site properly?

Taco Verdonschot • 3 years ago

We currently have an active issue about the recognition of non-latin scripts. In fact, I can even say one of the developers next to me is working on a fix as we speak. You can see the ticket’s progress on GitHub.

TAKEO ume • 3 years ago

I use SEO yoast [premium].
Always thank you!

I already updated yoast 3?3.03
I cleared cache.

but

[I have 3problems]
?I already set the article title but snippet editor Is displayed??%%title%% %%sep%% %%sitename%%?

?I set the focus keyword but focus keyword will is disappered after pushing [post]

?all the snippet title I have set untill now was changed to %%title%% %%sep%% %%sitename%%

hi guys,
this update is a nightmare for me. it breaks the visual editor — aka the main “C” in the wordpress CMS system. i am not sure why you would make such a desctructive, reckless update.

my problem after five days of Yoast nightmare: all the “Tools” functions are broken and do not load.

QUESTION: How can I export all Yoast meta data without any Tools functions? I need to do this in order to fully delete/reinstall the plugin.

Steve • 3 years ago

Can you or your webhost restore a backup from before the update? That would take care of it.

I use UpdraftPlus, and I restored the plugins only, from a couple days before 3.0.x. Super simple.

Matt • 3 years ago

Upgraded to SEO Premium after using Yoast “basic” for a few years. I can’t seem to update any of the content in my snippet editor. All it says is “The is an example site – edit by clicking here.” which I do, but when I save it, it just goes back to the way it was. The URL won’t let me edit anything prior to example.com and same goes of the meta description.

I’m sure this is a setting somewhere, but for the life of me I can’t seem to find it.

Please also include any additional information, for example about your server, that might help us reproduce, understand and solve this issue.

Sebastian • 3 years ago

Hi,
New yoast (version 3.0.3) still make my visual editor slow down. Its very difficult to edit article even on different web browser. Its not crush but freeze. On IE I got message script not response. Without your plugin all works fine. Clear Cache doesn`t help!

It would seem the new way to edit the meta title and description isn’t that great when in a custom post type setup. I’m getting this: http://imgur.com/Nv4I6iY

Taco Verdonschot • 3 years ago

This should be solved in version 3.0.3. Are you running that already?

Christian Schäfer • 3 years ago

Yes, I have the same problem – using Enfold Theme!

Peer • 3 years ago

Hi Yoast, thanks for your nice tool. Unfortunately there is problem with the UTF special characters in the meta descriptions in version 3.0.3 with Google Chrome if you copy and insert as example the ? it disappears after the changes, same with the checkmark ?. But the small heart ? works without problems? Help would be great. Thanks Peer

I have the same issue on a custom post type which is built using Advanced Custom Fields 5.3.2.2 flexible content fields. Seems to me it can’t find any html with the id of «content» related to the TinyMCE editor, but I also have other pages on the same site built in the same way without any TinyMCE editor where it works. Hope this could be a clue, or maybe I’m way off here :)

Laura • 3 years ago

I tried to optimize a post using the update: Found that the content analysis is baffling on at least 3 points:
The images on this page are missing alt tags. – I filled in “alternative text” for every image. What’s the problem.
The slug for this page contains one or more stop words, consider removing them. The title is “The Easiest Balsamic Glaze” – Remove “the”? Really?
The page title contains the focus keyword, but it does not appear at the beginning; try and move it to the beginning. Wrong the focus keywords, “balsamic glaze” appear in the first paragraph. What’s the problem?

So what am I not understanding or what is going on?

Kristina Svensson • 3 years ago

Hi,

Great post! It solved my first question about where the metabox went and I have now been able to edit that info.

My next question I haven’t found the answer for yet. It is about default image.

I sort of remember that I at some point (years ago) added a “default picture” in Yoast SEO. The idea was that the default picture should be picture in social media when the first page was shared or if there where no featured image available. In the beginning it worked well but lately that picture always shows even if I add another pictures as featured image, Facebook image and Twitter image. Today I got feed up and decided to deleate it. Better have no image than always show the same one. But I can’t find where the “upload” function is.

Taco Verdonschot • 3 years ago

The default ‘social sharing image’ is set under SEO -> Social -> Facebook. So if you want to unset it, you can there as well.

However, it should work properly. If it doesn’t on your website, please feel free to create a bug report on GitHub. We’ll be happy to solve any bug you find.

xandra • 3 years ago

I had to roll back version 3.03. Not workable! The sniplet editor is okay but the key words are all gone and (after 3 hours of trying to get them back) I decided to go to a previous version.
Besides it takes forever fot this version to decide if the seo is okay!! I did see it on one of my pages but all the others lost the key words.

Totally disappointed.

Kevin Cleaver • 3 years ago

Version 3.03 still showing the unable to index home page message after flushing the cache

Taco Verdonschot • 3 years ago

I’ve taken a look at the website linked in your profile and the status onpage.org reports seems to be quite valid.
Your homepage looks like it has a relative canonical set.
A canonical should be an absolute link. Relative or protocol-relative will not work.
This means your current setting can cause indexing issues, so we strongly advise you to fix it.

venkatesh wenky • 3 years ago

user interface is bad i want to roll back

Fabrizio Van Marciano • 3 years ago

Hey Joost and team, I appreciate the upgrades on this plugin, they’re awesome, I love them all. Yes there’s a few bugs that I’m sure you guys will iron out, and there’s no need for me to mention them here again as they’ve already been said. Just wanted to say great work, I appreciate how difficult it is to keep something so great as this plugin going year after year, so well done guys :)

Nyssa • 3 years ago

An easy way to revert to an old version without losing your settings is through FTP transfer, such as Filezilla. As long as you keep backups of your website, you can just overwrite one with the other.

Cyril Darmouni • 3 years ago

HI Guys

how did you release this crap
from the best SEO plugin to the most horrible update
HORRIBLE

Yuliya • 3 years ago

Hi! I’ve installed 3.03 version. I don’t like it at all. Snipper editor doesn’t work properly and I cannot see how much symbols left. There is no link “Check” from “traffic light” right to the Seo box. And the most annoying thing is that SEO indicators don’t update in the real-time. I mean I have corrected all red dots for the content but still have common red dot for all post. Today I ’ve returned 2.3.5 version as the best and comfortable.

posicionamiento aso • 3 years ago

yoast are the best plugin SEO in the world for WordPress! great job guys!

Taco Verdonschot • 3 years ago

Thanks!

Indri Haen • 3 years ago

I’ve the same problem with Bob’s above. It’s shown blank page when I update it to 3.1 version. I delete the plugin from cpanel folder then it normal again.

Antoinette de Fouw • 3 years ago

I’ve got 3.03 installed but still having the same ‘start-up’ problems.
All focus words have disappeared from the blogs; with new ones they don’t get saved. In Firefox the visual editor is not working. There is no analyses (just the blue-ish bar) and all stop lights are red/off line.
Als ik op enige manier van dienst kan zijn….

Antoinette de Fouw • 3 years ago

OK, It works on a couple of websites, and if it does, it looks great :)
The difference could be between working or not:
– apache vs windows server (not)
– wootheme canvas (not) vs other themes

Using the snippet preview is still not working to establish my meta description. It still states “No meta description has been specified” and when I go view my post page the meta descriptions are missing from the posts I’ve written since the update. I have also cleared my cache and am still having problems. Thank you for your patience and help.

Melissa • 3 years ago

Is there anyway the snippet editor can be bypassed and we can use the old one? It’s horrible. It doesn’t work for me. It won’t let me copy/paste and every time I click the pencil It duplicates what was there initially. I have 2 new sites to optimize & I’m getting behind now because of the editor.

Dov Lutman • 3 years ago

Where can you enter the meta data now in the new version?

Taco Verdonschot • 3 years ago

You can enter the meta data directly in the snippet editor!

Example

T.Andrei • 3 years ago

Hello! Since the update everytime i want to edit an article with yoast, my Physical Memory Usage (which is 250mb) exceeds the limit and crashes my site. I have upgraded my host solution and nothing. Few days ago, until the update, with my Physical Memory Usage of 200 mb it worked just fine. Sorry for my english, wish you all the best!

Honger als een paard • 3 years ago

Since the update the plugin won’t analyse a page anymore.
I cleared the browser cache, doesn’t help.

I can edit the snippet and focus word, but the content analysis doesn’t run ( stays at a gradient of blue).

I hope there will be a fix for this soon, cause the xml sitemap of yoast also didn’t work and got replaced. Plainly the Seo help is the only reason to keep the plugin and this just stopped working.

travis • 3 years ago

Unfortunately the snippet editor is a step backwards. As soon as you try to edit Page Title or Mets Description, you get a blank box. I always just make edits to both of these not write them from scratch. And you cannot copy/paste either of them to edit them in notepad or similar.

Taco Verdonschot • 3 years ago

What you see in the title and meta description fields are placeholders. Defaults that we calculate from your posts. If you decide to create your own, you overwrite the defaults. That’s why we show you an empty box.

Does that make sense, or would you still like to see that changed?

Brad • 3 years ago

Taco,

If we have customized the meta description and title, it is frustrating to have them erased when you want to update that edit. What if you only want to change 1 word or 1 letter? You have to re-write the entire description.

Also, why can’t we paste text anymore…?

Matt • 3 years ago

Brad, I second that. It is frustrating to have the snippet field erased when you want to make a simple change.

????? ???? • 3 years ago

The new version does not have the complexity and tedium. But I liked him …
Please Farsi language version better translation Knyd.byshtr words are incomplete.

Taco Verdonschot • 3 years ago

We’re always looking for people to help us translate our plugins. If you want to help out translating to Farsi, please go to https://translate.yoast.com to sign up as translator.

This should be solved by updating to the latest version (3.0.3) and manually clearing your browser’s cache.

Steve • 3 years ago

Where did the Title and Description Meta Tags go. I cannot enter them on new posts. This plugin has just become very confusing. I hope it does not screw up all my other sites. It shows my SEO red on my new post but does not have anywhere to enter my meta data? I am really disappointed and use this for other sites. The analyzer is just showing blue? This is awful.

Taco Verdonschot • 3 years ago

You can edit the title and meta descriptions directly in the snippet editor. Just click the title, URL or meta description to start editing!

Reverted to 2.3.5 and I can breathe a sigh of relief. Things are back to normal. Tried all the fixes for the latest upgrade and nothing happened. Will try again when things get sorted. I know Joost and his team are working hard and I want to let him know how much it is appreciated

Helena • 3 years ago

Thank you so much for the update. I LOVE the changes you made the taxonomies… I’d been looking for a plugin to add images and the rich text editor will surely make my life a whole lot easier. So thank you very, very much for those changes.

And just to let you know, the snippet editor is still not working for me either. Hope you find a fix soon.. :)

Thanks again for all your hard work!

Anne • 3 years ago

OK.. I flushed my cache and all is working better but still getting no meta description?? and Keyword doesn’t appear in the 1st paragraph… the snippet is fine but I have no place to put meta description and the keyword is in the 1st paragrah see here:http://onfireforhandmade.com/chalk-it-up/

Thanks

Bad SEO score No meta description has been specified, search engines will display copy from the page instead.
Bad SEO score The focus keyword doesn’t appear in the first paragraph of the copy. Make sure the topic is clear immediately.

I think that once the bugs are out this will be awesome!

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Joost de Valk • 3 years ago

To edit the meta description click the desc in the snippet preview (now: snippet editor)!

I guess this is going to be a big help for a lot of WordPress users, and no question this is still the #1 WordPress SEO plugin. Keep up the great work!

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Joost de Valk • 3 years ago

Thanks for the nice words!

Criacao • 3 years ago

Very nice upgrade!
I had some issues but clearing all caches really fixed them.

Anne • 3 years ago

I clicked the restore default settings and now my menu works again but nothing else does… snippet doesn’t work.. I fill it in and when I save it reverts to the sample snippet…. YOU NEED TO FIX ….. I have looked through support forum and tried the solutions and they did not fix the problems!

Anne • 3 years ago

I had to disable the plugin this am.. all of my menu tabs when clicked were going to a 404 page not found. No matter what I did they did not come back.
When I disabled the plugin they came back! Huge bug… please fix!!!

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Joost de Valk • 3 years ago

Anne, we’re trying to fix bug as fast as we can. I can understand it’s frustrating but we’ll need more data and more specifics to be able to help you…

To everyone who has left a comment saying they run into issues of whatever sort: please make sure you update to version 3.0.3 and clear all your caches. If you’re still running into issues, we’d love to know, if it fixed it, we’d love to hear too!

Steve Oglesby • 3 years ago

Same issues as before. 3.0.3 didn’t help, even with multiple cache-clearing.

Madenbaron • 3 years ago

I have a question about the Snippet-Tool:
When you use much “long” letters like “m,o,q” it uses much more room than “i,l,n”. When I use to much of the long letters, google wouldn´t show me the full title.

A function that proofes also the size of the text should help a lot, or?

jurgen van tilburg • 3 years ago

hi all
the meta description, title, url can be edited in the google snippet preview directly, just hover over it, you’ll see it.

How can I disable real time content analysis, its breaking up my post editor, I can’t even write and add anything.

Nyssa • 3 years ago

Since the upgrade, I get constant lag and script errors just trying to update and type posts. It’s very frustrating.

Steve • 3 years ago

I just switched back to 2.3.5, in about 15 seconds, thanks to UpdraftPlus.

Are y’all going to let us know when these issues are fixed?

John Baron • 3 years ago

Yeah, this isn’t great is it? I’ve tried refreshing cache etc but it’s still glitchy.

For some reason I can’t set a key word – I keep typing it in on new posts – and on some posts I get a blue line underneath and it evaluates it, on others I don’t get any response at all. If I save the post the keywords haven’t saved.

I have the Yoast SEO Plugin always liked, but now I am already heavily disappointed. I have now been waiting for few days, but also the update of today has brought nothing.
The Content Analysis invites forever, what remains is a blue bar. Nothing is displayed.

Gavin • 3 years ago

Hi,
Yoast update giving console error when in page in dashboard –

tinyMCE.get(…) is null
wp-seo-post-scraper-302.min.js

Thanks

Reinhard • 3 years ago

Some cracking comments!

Gio • 3 years ago

How do I get a previous version of the plugin — before the major update. The new plugin is not ready for prime time. It doesn’t work.

Just let me know where I can get a version that worked!

Adam • 3 years ago

Love the plugin and have done for many years now but this onpage integration is becoming a real pain in the back side, emails still shooting off to clients saying their index page can not be crawled…………which of course it can.

Just makes it look like a massive marketing ploy for Onpage to gain membership as every single person has asked me whether they need to sign up as a result of these false warnings .

All that bother and ive not had a chance to check out all the bits others seem to be moaning about :S

Didnt want to but on one particular site the plugin made an entire custom post type turn into 404 pages, disable the plugin or upload old version everything goes back to normal.

Anne • 3 years ago

plugin is not working properly on either of my sites.. when I edit snippet it does not save… when editing… not sure I like this update!

Anne • 3 years ago

Snippet does not save… Meta description for snippet does not save… I think it is broken!!

Doesn’t work at all on my other site! Please fix or restore old version!

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Joost de Valk • 3 years ago

Please make sure you are on version 3.0.3!

arthur • 3 years ago

not a big fan of the new plugin. old version was simple and easy to use, you just made it complicated. that gives me a reason to look for a new provider…..

try doing usability testing next time before publishing.

epic fail.

arthur • 3 years ago

p.s. please revert back to the old yoast seo

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Joost de Valk • 3 years ago

Arthur, while I understand that you’re frustrated, you’re not doing a hard working team of people justice with your comments. We have tested this, extensively, for months. We’ve put out public beta’s of all the new functionality.

The question is whether you’re actually seeing the full extent of our plugins new power or whether you’re running into issues. Are you using version 3.0.3?

Robson • 3 years ago

For the first time, I am removing this Yoast SEO Plugin, to get the previous version, saved on my computer.
And I will not update it, because we have to be even worse. Deception!

Gio • 3 years ago

Where can I get the previous version? It sounds like many other people want to install an older version and yet, nobody is communicating where an old version can be located.

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Joost de Valk • 3 years ago

I honestly think we have improved it quite a bit, but you might have run into some specific issues. Have you tried version 3.0.3?

Robson • 3 years ago

They spoiled the plugin! SEO does not work anymore! Failure!

In the previous version, the Snippet Editor field was filled in automatically. Not now fills more, that is, all that SEO analysis now it does not!

What was great is now no more!

Correct this please! What was great is now horrible!

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Joost de Valk • 3 years ago

The snippet field should still show automatically. If it doesn’t, please update to 3.0.3 and make sure your browser cache is clear.

Lee Regan • 3 years ago

Thanks to Yoast for such a great plugin. Really makes my life easier and my clients happier. I was experiencing the “Homepage not Indexable” notification as many have reported. Fetch and refresh did not fix the issue.

Upon further investigation, after creating an account at onpage.org, I noticed that onpage was getting a 503 error… this could not be as I was actively accessing and changing the website. Turns out I was blocking Germany from accessing the website for security reason through Wordfence Country Blocking. Unchecked Germany and bang! Site gets a report correctly in onpage.org. However the yoast dashboard widget is still reporting the website cannot be indexed.

Is there another source these checks are using? I know now it is a false notification – as Yandex, Bing and Google all report my site as indexable.

Thanks again for such a great plugin. Just wanted to post incase others have the same experience I am.

Rob • 3 years ago

Been tinkering with it all morning and it still won’t save the updated snippet. It reverts back to example.

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Joost de Valk • 3 years ago

Which version are you on? Are you on 3.0.3?

Jose Ortiz • 3 years ago

The previous version allowed me to do a 301 redirect from the page/post window. This has been removed. The previous version was more user friendly in my opinion.

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Joost de Valk • 3 years ago

That was removed over 6 months ago. If you didn’t miss that until today, maybe you didn’t use it so much? :)

jagdev • 3 years ago

Actually, meta description disappeared to all. It might they have added it in premium version. It will be better to use all in one seo plugin.

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Joost de Valk • 3 years ago

It didn’t disappear :) Click the title or desc in the snippet preview (now: snippet editor).

For those who may not have noticed, Yoast is up to version 3.0.3 as of an hour ago. Release notes, especially for 3.0.2, claim to resolve several bugs mentioned here. Worth a try to update to the latest if you haven’t already to see if it helps.

Oscar • 3 years ago

Ok so I finally figured out where to add the meta description. My issue is every time I publish the page the snipet returns to default, meta disappears. Also, the URL under snipet area reads example.org/example-post, I can only change the example=post but again it reverts back to default when I publish page. Is there a save button that I am missing?????

Caitlin • 3 years ago

Same issue! Really irritating. I want the old Yoast back.

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Joost de Valk • 3 years ago

Are you both on 3.0.3? If not, please update!

Steve • 3 years ago

I am having the same issue where I created the home page by editing the example-post and now cannot change how the page is displayed in google search results. There is no way to remove example-post and simply leave the website url so that it loads the index page?
I am using version 3.03 so this is obviously still an issue. Do you have any advice on how to rectify this.
Thanks,
Steve

Alison Butler • 3 years ago

I’ve just installed 3.0.2 and think it looks great but it isn’t working properly. Issues I have are:
1. Doesn’t save the snippet information so no meta title, link or description
2. Reports no keyword in page title – it’s the first two words.
3. Reports no keyword in first para – again it’s the first two words.
Traffic light shows green at the foot of the post, but no longer appears in SEO column of post list. Many thanks.

Alison Butler • 3 years ago

Thanks for such a prompt update. It’s fixed all the bugs for me and it’s great!

Anna • 3 years ago

Hey team Yoast!
I’m trying to add schema markup tags to my posts html page source, but it seems that once I save the code and flush the cache all the “itemprop” elements disappear. Do you think it’s Yoast SEO plugin that overwrites my code? Do you know how to fix it?

Oscar • 3 years ago

I just updated the Yoast plugin and published my first page using the new updated plugin. I can not locate where to add the meta description and page title??? I like the new look and new features. Can you please help???

Cheri • 3 years ago

*** OMG 3.01, 3.02, 3.03, I WANNA START THE DAY OVER :( ***
I was hoping to be able to purchase premium versions in the new year but i have almost 50 websites, just uploaded updates, working on one – this wonderful new analyze partner (whose site is non responsive, oh sorry, be patient) -But now my plugin says my site is not found at all. (I only target USA) Now it is saying all my titles, descriptions, keywords are gone – alone only 1 site is at least 100pgs … Okay, square 1 redo a page save, BAM IT DISAPPEARS! – really? this live snippet view, it doesn’t save??
I am not a happy person right now – to say the least!

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Joost de Valk • 3 years ago

Very sorry to hear that, we’ve been working very hard here to make sure it all works. If you still do have problems, make sure your browser cache is empty. If it is, do report any outstanding issues on Github or here.

Cheri • 3 years ago

**RESOLVED** Thanks for the response – the latest update corrected all the issues with my site(s).

THANK YOU AND THE TEAM AT YOAST!!

sidenote: i am not happy to be lead to utilize a company that is giving me a false ERROR NOTICE(S) … and their site doesn’t even function.

Zbyszek • 3 years ago

I bought today Premium version – how to change free to pro? I have bought and … ? Ia have no any link or code or anything. Plase help – studiox4@wp.pl

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Joost de Valk • 3 years ago

Hey,

you should have received a purchase email with download link, if not please email us at support@yoast!

Yvonne • 3 years ago

Please advise if there is a way to revert to the old version. This version has broken my visual editor for all pages….I cleared browser cashe but did not fix…had to disable in order to resolve issue.
Also, not able to see active snippet or meta tag anymore…just see the example test. When I click to change the snippet or the meta tag there is no real time update and it doesn’t save or allow the changes to the Snippet or Meta tag to be made. All I see is “This is an example text”. Clearly not usefull at all from an SEO perspective unless one can see what Snippet and Meta Tag is currently being used on the page and allowed to make changes to that.
Please advise if there is somewhere we can download previous version.

Do I have to re-set all my keywords, titles and meta descriptions? I am now getting a red light on every page “No focus keyword was set for this page. If you do not set a focus keyword, no score can be calculated.”

On my menu pages I have all green lights?

Jeff • 3 years ago

Just noticed another update and now everything is fixed. THANK YOU!!!

Brent Jett • 3 years ago

Yoast SEO plugin 3.0.2 has javascript errors so Site Origin page builder can’t load its admin view. Do you guys even bother testing this thing?

Kevin Brooks • 3 years ago

Agreed – I installed 3.02 and it broke Page Builder on the site. Does 3.03 solve this?

After doing the update I no longer have an automatic snippet, the snippet editor is there but it use to fill in the name, url and preview text. We have your SEO plugin and the news plugin, can you help?

Emily • 3 years ago

Since updating to 3.0.2 my SEO has been completely erased from my entire site. I followed suggestions of clearing cache (“a couple times”) and also deactivating and reactivating the plugin. Nothing changed and every single one of my posts has now lost the SEO for it. This is horrendous. And apparently many, many, many users are having the same issue. At this point I am about to switch SEO services because I am already going to have to reenter every last SEO keyword and meta description etc for every single one of my posts…

Steve • 3 years ago

I don’t think everything is gone; when I deactivated the plugin and checked existing posts, everything was still there. It just doesn’t show up anywhere with 3.0.x.

I’m having the same problems as everyone else, btw.

Emily • 3 years ago

I tried deactivating, that didn’t work. I finally installed WP Rollback and went back to 2.3.5 and now everything is fine (all inputs restored). I won’t be touching anything until I hear it’s fixed for sure! Good luck with your site!

Filipe • 3 years ago

Hi Emily;
Thanks for your post! I had a mini-freak out moment when I realized all my SEO keywords disappeared after I upgraded the plugin. After I saw your post I had rolled back to version 2.3.5 and everything is back in its place. A few hours and a mini-heart attack later, I will stay away from version 3.x. Thanks again.
Filipe

Alexandr • 3 years ago

What hapened with SEO on images
when I edit some image doest apper SEO parameters ?¡?¡

-Error “Your homepage cannot be indexed by search engines” Unsure how to fix this as OnPage says they are too busy to make new accounts.

Brad • 3 years ago

Edit to read …. -Faster Image Insert is broken

Vasko • 3 years ago

I am still not able to remove “Your homepage cannot be indexed by search engines.” I did every step i click on the “Fetch current status ” I have the latest version of the plugin.I will be grateful for some help.

Peter • 3 years ago

Updated to the new SEO yesterday..its a FIASCO, we’ve Cleared browser cache, makes no difference.
The Meta Description Bar is missing completely from the page
On our posts it says our Keywords do not appear in the URL (they are there)
You have not used your focus keyword in any subheading (such as an H2) in your copy. (we did)
The keyword density is 0%, which is a bit low; the focus keyword was found 0 times. (its in the copy multiple times)
The focus keyword doesn’t appear in the first paragraph of the copy. Make sure the topic is clear immediately.(this is wrong)

Its a total mess…and everything was PERFECT before updating, so FIX it..its on your end.

Hi, I have a wedding photography website that I optimize for SEO and I’m a little confused as to the best way to use this plugin. is there a tutorial that I can read somewhere? Thanks

George • 3 years ago

Hi,
The new snippet editor clears out special symbols (? phone and others) – it is not possible to insert them.

Chris • 3 years ago

So does this mean all of my old posts have no meta description set? Don’t understand why the update would not keep all the old info…
Not sure what to do from here.

Chris • 3 years ago

Great for new posts, what about the posts already made. I updated the SEO score but now all posts don’t have a focus keyword shown or the snippet that I crafted back then.

Horst • 3 years ago

thanks but I’ll wait for 4.0. I spent all day yesterday trying to fix this disaster of a beta only to roll back to ver 2. you screwed the pooch on this one Yoast. Your’e awesome but you screwed this release up big time

Michaela • 3 years ago

Keyword-Density Maximum 2,5% ??

Pete • 3 years ago

Hey,

After updating, I can’t use the Snippet Editor or see the Content Analysis. I can only set a Keyword.

We have an issue in the Media section when trying to edit the image. Cropping an image or resizing won’t allow pixels to be typed in. It keeps reverting to saying NaN in the input area and won’t allow any resizing or cropping, even when drawing the bounding box for crop, it gives the same issue.

This worked prior to the update to Version 3.0. As suggested above, we tried clearing the cache and it didn’t resolve the issue.

It works as expected when the Yoast SEO plugin is deactivated, so we will wait until an update comes out before using it again as Media is very important to us.

Chris • 3 years ago

Really not comfortable with the forced working with onPage. Whilst team Yoast may believe they are a company they would like to partner with I’m not at all happy with having that partnership forced upon me and my clients.
When I want to check the SEO factors on my websites I would far rather be in control of which services have access to that information. I’d be happy to see an option to disable this functionality.

Sandie • 3 years ago

I agree. Plus what are the emails all about? “Yoast SEO has detected that [domain] can be indexed again” I already have a system in place for uptime monitoring that is far more informative, so I’d really like to be able to switch the spam off please.

William • 3 years ago

I agree as well. At the least, there should be an option to disable the snooping of onpage.org.

Vag • 3 years ago

Hi
One more thing is that after update can’t edit the title …
When click one title always edit the url…

I rolled back to the 2.3.5 myself and wait for 3.1 first….. To downgrade : uninstall/remove 3.0.x fm the plugin page first… then install 2.3.5 again… did it for me :-)

DAVID HARROW • 3 years ago

That sounds like a great idea – I don’t have the time to waste on software that is broken – the old one was great. BUT – if I uninstall 3.03 and reinstall 2.35 will all my SEO data still be there, or will it disappear when I uninstall 3.03 ?

Clare • 3 years ago

This latest version is very cool!
Firstly, thank you to Chad for explaining how to add a Meta Description (I also didn’t understand “click the text, edit, boom”.)
A couple of queries:
1) Please can you re-instate the no. of characters available in the Meta Description
2) There seems to be an issue if the first paragraph of the post is short – I get the message ” The focus keyword doesn’t appear in the first paragraph of the copy. Make sure the topic is clear immediately.” even though the keyword is there. This was commented on in the pre-release article in July but does not appear to have been fixed.
Otherwise, I love the real-time updates and other improvements in the plugin – thanks!

Alex • 3 years ago

Problems

1 WordPress admin running extremely slow!

2 Why I cant edit the current Snippet, clicking on the pencil icon delete the current Snippet

3 OnPage.org gives to many false errors

Thank you

Piet • 3 years ago

I also noticed the same thing, admin running on turtle speed. What’s crazy is that I’m on a local install, so does that mean that the Yoast SEO plugin is now vigorously calling home???

i agree with you . wp admin so slow and i think admin-ajax.php wait to receive site test on pingdom

Ian • 3 years ago

Version has completely broken the SEO plugin.
It no longer shows anything other than 3 fancy icons which do absolutely nothing when clicked on.
Clearing the cache is a common fallback yet by doing that I lose all my history for a problem that has not been caused by me. Why do I have to suffer for a problem that has been caused by Team Yoast?

Leslie Rossi • 3 years ago

I just did the update, and cleared my browser cache history. but nothing shows up beside the icons still… i also don’t use cloudfare as mentioned above.

thanks,
leslie

Jochen Marcus Löffler • 3 years ago

Hello,
where has the meta description desapeared?

Cathy • 3 years ago

I’d like to know too! Where do I put them, I’ve clicked on everything and nothing comes up for me to add them to.

Gosh I wish I hadn’t upgraded, can we undo and use old version?

Ward • 3 years ago

The meta description box is the editable text box in the snippet editor section at the top. It isn’t identified as such but that’s it. I found it by accident!

Louise / Priestess Tarot • 3 years ago

Yoast need to perhaps put an edit (pencil) style icon there to show you can edit it. Goodness, that’s taken me two days to figure out! I’m a little greyer now! :)

amber • 3 years ago

Hey I just ran the update and now i can not edit pages or theme customizations. I had to unistall SEO to get the pages working again. Errg! This is the error message:
“Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.”

Robert • 3 years ago

Meta description box doesn’t show up. I cleared the cache and reinstalled the plugin. Help!

Ward • 3 years ago

The meta description box is the editable text box in the snippet editor section at the top. It isn’t identified as such but that’s it. I found it by accident!

Nic Popescu • 3 years ago

Yes, where is the meta description box? I have the same problem…

Prajwal Desai • 3 years ago

I am using a correct focus keyword but it still says “The focus keyword does not appear in the URL for this page.”
Also, where is the meta description box ?. In previous version it used to show the count of letters in the meta description box, can you bring back the count feature ?.

Peter • 3 years ago

we’re having exactly the same problems…this is ridiculous.

V.S. Chaitanya • 3 years ago

Full of bugs, I had updated to V3.1 and cleared the browser cache. a lot of features in the editor are not working.

Yoast SEO section showing blank

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Joost de Valk • 3 years ago

Did you try version 3.0.3 ? I assumed with 3.1 you mean 3.0.1 :)

Ward • 3 years ago

I’ve been out of the country and just got back. The Yoast SEO changes look great but I can’t can’t find where to write a meta description! It used to be at the bottom. I’m getting dinged for not having it. Sorry if it’s obvious but I can’t find it. Help please! Thanks.

Ward • 3 years ago

Okay, I figured it out. It would be helpful to new users to identify the snippet box as “meta description”.

Louise / Priestess Tarot • 3 years ago

The snippet box is the meta description??!
I have a snippet editor, which I cannot edit… this is the ONLY bug bear I have with the new version. But of course, their support won’t just tell me, as I’m a free user, not a paid up one.

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Joost de Valk • 3 years ago

You can edit the title and the URL there too, so that’s not exactly the case :)

Chris • 3 years ago

Happy Yoast user (not premium) for a couple years with the only issue seen when the keyword count was problematic a long time ago. Was glad to see v. 3.0 description and updated, not so glad since, even with 3.01. With no v. 3.02 as a countermeasure update I had to deactivate the SEO this evening as posting was excessively damaged.

Quick list of some issues seen:
Could not add tags
Could not add links
When posting the whole page scrolled, not just the content area
Could not add media
As mentioned by Jenne, box just shows icons and also no area to enter the key word
Etc.

Not sure of the beta testing done of if we are the beta testers? The intentions sound great but the end result leaves quite a sting of despair so hoping for a quick resolve.

Chris • 3 years ago

To add a data point for analysis for the earlier post, another issue was the lack of the ability to switch from the “visual” to “text” view. when clicking on “text” view there was no response.

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Joost de Valk • 3 years ago

Hi Chris, did you try 3.0.3? Should have fixed quite a few of these.

Gordon Skene • 3 years ago

I just installed the latest version of Yoast and it prevented me from using my Media Library. After several attempts I deactivated Yoast and it works fine now. Anyone else having this sort of bug problem?

I’m migrating a site, did a complete new setup of wordpress, including Yoast SEO, but all new posts are getting useless URL since yesterday ;-(

Thanks

Alex • 3 years ago

Hello Yoast team,
Love the new update. There are however, 2 main things that I really would like to see go back to the way it used to be. When you are typing in the Meta description, it no longer tells you how many words you have left. The Yoast SEO plugin use to display the post ranking just above the Publish button, it does not do that anymore. Please bring it back, I used that to get an idea where I am on optimization.

Overall a good update, thanks for an awesome plugin.

Pedro • 3 years ago

When i creat a new post, why the URL now are now so short? The focus keyword disapear now from the URL from the new posts… in the past doesn´t happen. How i can change that?

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Joost de Valk • 3 years ago

That was a bug in 3.0, I do think 3.0.3 should have fixed that for you.

If that is a known issue then why did you already come with a release? How difficult is it to first get your sh*t together and then release the update instead of doing n updates in a very short time period? Or is this a special tactic to have everyone talking about your plugin?

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Joost de Valk • 3 years ago

Piet, I’m seriously hurt by that comment. We didn’t know that issue before we released, we knew about it when we got the comment, and were preparing an update. We did get our shit together. Did you test the release candidate? Or did you try the beta we released a month beforehand? Before being all high and mighty, consider that this is an open source project with 4 million users and you, too, could have done something.

Tineke • 3 years ago

I have the same question as Neil about meta tags, but i don’t understand your answer:

Click that text, edit it: boom!

Tineke • 3 years ago

Thanks Chad, now I see it.

Chad • 3 years ago

Tineke,
I did the same thing… I expected an old text field. The Meta Tag fields are right in front of our face… you have to hover/click on them. If your having a hard seeing them… try this…
1.) Go to the Page you want to edit
2.) Seach CTRL+F (within browser) for “Snippet Editor”
3.) What looks like the old Google preview can NOW actually be selected and edited.

Laura • 3 years ago

Chad, you are right!

It was right in front of my face. I didn’t realize the google preview is where I was supposed to click, to the right of “Snippet Editor.”

Thanks for the ctrl+F suggestion!

Chad • 3 years ago

Like others… site did an auto update to 3.0.1
I’ve seen other comments regarding having NO Meta Desc… and you ref. clicking on link (and boom)… however, I already have a meta desc. the SEO suggestion advice is to extend/revise. I’m unable to find the text field to update this… doesn’t appear to be that easy.

Also, I thought our site already had a premium lic… but now I’m being prompted to upgrade… is that a feature of 3.x… need a new lic.?

Chad • 3 years ago

Duh… okay… disregard first part of question.
I just did a mouse-over of the Snippet Editor and saw the blue highlight and pen for editing.

Hannah • 3 years ago

Hi, after reading your responses to the comments above, I already cleared my cache and refreshed my browser page for this site, but I see no change. It’s a brand new site with one post and only the default themes installed at this point. The plugin’s admin submenu is almost completely dead. Completely dead up to XML Sitemaps (all pages are blank and tab links are dead), where it is blank except for the checkbox to enable sitemap functionality. Advanced looks ok, Tools looks ok, but Search Console’s Get Google Auth Code button link is dead. In the post/page editor, I only see the three icons on the left but nothing else, and clicking the icons does not do anything. What do I do? I’m really nervous because I updated the plugin on 38 sites this morning. This is the only one I’ve looked at so far, but it’s not looking very promising at this stage. Thanks for any help you can offer.

Jenne • 3 years ago

Also, this message will not go away even after the task is completed. “We’ve updated our SEO score algorithm. Click here to recalculate the SEO scores for all posts and pages.”

Ricky • 3 years ago

I’m getting this as well on multiple sites. The progress bar gets stuck at “72 of 72 done.” It never completes. So when you manually dismiss the dialog you end up back with the “We’ve updated our SEO score algorithm. Click here to recalculate the SEO scores for all posts and pages.” message.

Jeff • 3 years ago

Same here. Have updated to latest version and the alert never goes away even after going through the scores “We’ve updated our SEO score algorithm. Click here to recalculate the SEO scores for all posts and pages.”

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Joost de Valk • 3 years ago

It doesn’t go away? That sounds like a bug…

Trace • 3 years ago

It doesn’t go away …. and it’s on hundred of our clients’ sites on multisite … across multiple installations ….every page in the dashboard has it. Premium support has no fixes and we’ve reverted to twenty fourteen and disabled all plugins but the behavior persisted. When we click on the “Analyze Entire Site” link on the home page, we’re taken to a landing page that is in German …. Thus far support has only offered up random links to click like “Analyze Entire Site” that haven’t fixed anything.

Casimir • 3 years ago

when you will fixe this BUG!!!

Steve • 3 years ago

Same, mine just sits at 0 of 0 on all sites and the message keeps coming up even if I’ve dismissed it. Driving me nuts.

Mirzargar • 3 years ago

I also have this problem

Tai • 3 years ago

It does not go away either

Jenne • 3 years ago

I don’t have premium and now that box just shows icons. What will it be for free users?

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Joost de Valk • 3 years ago

It needs to show a lot more. Clear your browser cache, if you run something like cloudflare, make sure to clear that cache too.

Manuel • 3 years ago

I cant upload images to wordpress post with the new update, if I desactivated yoast plugin I again can upload images, what do I do?

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Joost de Valk • 3 years ago

Clear your browser cache, if you run something like cloudflare, make sure to clear that cache too.

Marian • 3 years ago

Clearly — you’re not the only experiencing this issue. Please do something about this other than telling people to clear their cache.

dylan • 3 years ago

Thank you for the amazing work. I love the new real time update!

Bob Dunn • 3 years ago

Did the update and for me, things are looking good. Really loving the new features.

Will there be some more clarification on the OnPage.org free account and integration? thanks!

Bill • 3 years ago

i think I’m going premium.

BobDob • 3 years ago

The update has broken our visual editor in ALL of our posts pages. We have disabled the plugin and now it works fine. Get this fixed, please, or we’ll be switching to a new SEO plugin provider in short order.

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Joost de Valk • 3 years ago

Hey Bob,

I think clearing your browser cache has about a 90% chance of fixing the issue!

t • 3 years ago

hi. clearing cache does not fix the errors. CANNOT EDIT POSTS.

John Cole • 3 years ago

We’re having a similar problem with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin. When activated it removes the formatting buttons from the Text Editor when the Visual Editor has been disabled. We do not use the Visual Editor, but like to use the formatting buttons on Text Editor.

I just updated to Yoast SEO Premium 3.0.2 hoping it would fix it, but it does not. Tried clearing browser cache multiple times.

Florian • 3 years ago

Hey Bob,

We have try the new version in few of our websites, in we still have an issue with this update with the visual composer plugin (last version).
In order to solve this problem I have made a rollback on a backup from yesterday.

Can you have a look ? Thank you.

Neal Umphred • 3 years ago

JOOST

My site just auto-updated to 3.0 and on my first post the Content Analysis reads, “No meta description has been specified, search engines will display copy from the page instead.”

But the Meta Description box is not to be found anywhere.

What do I do?

NEAL

Earl • 3 years ago

I rarely complain or comment however I think removing the meta description box was a bad idea. It’s like hiding the speedometer on a car behind a hidden compartment.

I had to visit this forum just to figure out how to edit something I’ve taken for granted for so such a long time in your great plugin. My initial reaction was to grit my teeth and wish that I had upgraded in the morning, after getting my post published.

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Joost de Valk • 3 years ago

Hey, NEAL,

Click that text, edit it: boom!

Shalagh • 3 years ago

The snippet box is the meta box. It will turn blue when you hover. Type in there and the letters will turn red when you’ve reached your limit. Not well labeled but it’s there.

DAVID HARROW • 3 years ago

But if there is nothing there you can’t click it! Only the keyword has a box that allows data entry there is no box to click, no text to click, there is nothing there.
I see that on Pages V3.03 is working – we have the problem in Directory Entries.
Help please

Shalagh • 3 years ago

The snippet preview has become the meta box. It’s in the description of the product but not well labeled on the new page. Click on the snippet preview and suddenly it becomes blue with a pen. Type your meta in there . The letters will become red when you’ve reached you’ve reached your limit although there’s no number counter. Not well designed or explained but it’s there.

Laura • 3 years ago

Hi Joost de Valk,

I have the same problem about the Meta Description box being gone, as well as no option to manually edit the post title.

I tried what you said to “NEAL” above, about clicking the text, but there is no clickable text at all where it tells me there is no meta description specified.

Any solutions? It seems I’m not the only one.

Thank you!

Laura

Argyris • 3 years ago

No meta description box
No meta description has been specified, search engines will display copy from the page instead.

Shalagh • 3 years ago

The snippet preview has become the meta box. It’s in the description of the product but not well labeled on the new page. Click on the snippet preview and suddenly it becomes blue with a pen. Type your meta in there . The letters will become red when you’ve reached you’ve reached your limit although there’s no number counter. Not well designed or explained but it’s there.

Ashley Brewer • 3 years ago

Omg you are a lifesaver. This has made me near tears trying to figure out where that damn meta box went! lol Thank you! ;-)

Sharon • 3 years ago

THANK YOU Shalag!! I have spent ages looking for a way to edit meta description!! Needs to be explained a bit better I think, in their update.

Angela • 3 years ago

Thank you for the explanation on the new way to edit the meta description. I have spent countless minutes trying to figure this out! So frustrating!

Serg • 3 years ago

My meta description box has also disappeared since the upgrade.

Mike • 3 years ago

Same here, Snippet Editor has no box to the right. Cleared cache and still nothing!?

Kevin • 3 years ago

Seems to have broken my upload media button. When I turned off the updated plugin, it worked again.

Just like others here Kevin, I think clearing your browser cache has about a 90% chance of fixing the issue!

Kevin • 3 years ago

Thank you and it worked just fine.

Raymond • 3 years ago

New plugin looks good but works well ! But this i hate “Your homepage cannot be indexed by search engines” can you fix it please today :-)

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Joost de Valk • 3 years ago

We did :)

sien • 3 years ago

Same here, I have the premium version and the only seo I see are the icons. All that matters seems to be gone.
And what happened to the Dutch version?

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Joost de Valk • 3 years ago

Dutch is still shipped along!

Tim • 3 years ago

Really excited about this feature. Have been wanting/needing it for a while. Glad we went premium- it’s really helped!

George • 3 years ago

New features look perfect! Can’t wait to test the real time analysis. I am sure I will love this one.

Thank you team Yoast!

Brian Klinger • 3 years ago

I love the intentions of the new release and can’t wait to see them in action, but this morning when I updated the plugin it broke our backend. Specifically, we could no longer add links using the wysiwyg tools and attempting to set a featured image was completely broken. As those are two of the main aspects of our posts, we had to deactivate the Yoast plugin completely, which fixed everything. We are set up as a wordpress multisite if that helps you troubleshoot any. It was a good reminder that even the best plugins cannot be trusted as you never know what might cause interference. Let me know if there’s anything I can do to help you troubleshoot.

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Joost de Valk • 3 years ago

Hi Brian,

I think clearing your browser cache has about a 90% chance of fixing the issue!

It appears that all administrative pop-ups don’t work (which explains why the wysiwyg link and set featured image functions broke).

If you have any suggestions for troubleshooting I’d appreciate it. Everything works fine on our dev site, so I’m guessing it has to do with our multi-server arrangement.

Georgi • 3 years ago

Hi there,
I also have a problem with the new version. It broke my posts backend.
Any ideas how to fix it?
Thanks

Brian Klinger • 3 years ago

Upon calling rackspace it does appear it is all on our end – a problem with a large plugin trying to lsync too many files. Feel free to remove all of my ramblings and I’ll work with rackspace. I can’t wait to use this!

Bizzaviet • 3 years ago

Sorry, 3.0.1 has been error :( I cannot do anything after updated

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Joost de Valk • 3 years ago

Hey, I think clearing your browser cache has about a 90% chance of fixing the issue!

Bizzaviet • 3 years ago

I cannot post anything as like add picture, set feature picture,… but now it has been fixed on version 3.0.3. It is working, Thanks.

One more question:
When I checking site, it is very slow index on google by desktop, mobile has been indexed but desktop is not. I don’t know that is trouble of Yoast or my site.
Anybody same trouble like me? Thanks

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Joost de Valk • 3 years ago

What’s the error? :)

AGTES Kozijnen • 3 years ago

Hello Yoast,

New plugin looks great, and I can’t wait to optimise my pages for multiple keywords (thanks for all that additional work haha).

I do have one question though about the categories: I use the Genesis Framework and it uses the Archive settings instead of the normal description. Is this a problem and if so? How could I tackle this?

Thanks a lot!

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Joost de Valk • 3 years ago

Yes, we don’t support that. I’ve never liked that Genesis saves their own stuff instead of using WordPress core functionality.

John • 3 years ago

We moved our site over to Genesis some time ago (you praised then highly) but would love to use the new Category/Tag functionality. Can this be achieved?

Erik Duppen • 3 years ago

Hi,

Look promising this new functions. But looks there is a bug.. On all the sites of our clients this warning appears after the update:

“Your homepage cannot be indexed by search engines. This is very bad for SEO and should be fixed.” When you click on this link, you end the YOAST site. But the homepage aren’t de-indexed at all. Why is this? Even the premium plugin is showing this warning!

Greetz Erik

Susanta • 3 years ago

While I like the improvements in the latest plug-in, it does have some bug that puts you off. I see a warning that my home page has indexing issues and then I log out and log back in, it’s not there. Confusing!

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Joost de Valk • 3 years ago

Fixed in 3.0.1!

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Joost de Valk • 3 years ago

3.0.1 fixed that actually :)

Erik • 3 years ago

Thank you, it fixed! Great update :)

AGTES Kozijnen • 3 years ago

Hello Erik,

You can fix that by going to your dashboard and use the fetch current site button.

Luke Boobyer • 3 years ago

These new features look fantastic, I can’t wait to try them out.

tracy • 3 years ago

Why is there a number now appearing in the slug? Several of our story urls have been published with a number instead of a headline and we couldn’t change them. What’s with that?

John • 3 years ago

Same problem.

Also I keep getting myurl.com/example-post/ instead of myurl.com/ in the preview beneath the title and above the meta description. Anyone have a fix for this?

Linda • 3 years ago

I came here looking for an answer to my missing meta field. It is explained above: “This feature replaces the fields for title and meta description.”

Jo • 3 years ago

What ‘replaces’ title and meta tag descriptions? I still see a notification that I don’t have a meta tag and that my SEO is lower because of the missing meta tag. Please elaborate.

Ashley Brewer • 3 years ago

That’s what I want to know to! Where the heck do we write the meta description now? The box isn’t even there anymore. Pisses me off

Michelle • 3 years ago

same problem here. I reinstalled the previous version :-(

maipatana • 3 years ago

same here. Trying to figure out what’s wrong and it took me here.

Stefan • 3 years ago

1+ same problem, too.
It seems that due the major update and the bug above mentioned my site doesn’t show up at Google search results. Before my site was on page 1 :(

I have just a portfolio at my landing page and for Google results I use a meta description.
The meta description is not showing any more at Google search results and in backend I have the same issue like John – myurl.com/example-post (if you delete ‘example-post’ and hit publish, it still remains…

Please fix asap.

And yes, Yoast SEO 3.0.3 is installed.
Yes, visual composer is and all other [required/or not required] plugins are up-to-date.
And finally yes, I have emptied browser cache.

Rory McDonald • 3 years ago

I updated Yoast SEO today to the new version. Loved the previous one. I was pretty excited by the idea of real-time functionality but I get the snippet and keyword and that is it. Below that it is just a blue and white loading bar. Wondering if you guys know how to fix this?

Any help would be great, cheers.

Nicole • 3 years ago

Same. Just a blue and white loading bar.

Deb • 3 years ago

i face the same like you gyes !!
please suggest me what shod be the way i can overcome from those stuff …